Wretched Host

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Second Press Physical Copy of Wretched Host on Selfmadegod Records

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New Brunswick, NJ based technical death metal band DYSTROPHY has just signed a deal with Selfmadegod Records to release their new full length entitled “Wretched Host”. The band including Peter Lloyd (guitars), Peter Brown (guitars, vocals), Gregory Bueno (vocals, bass) and Matthew Thompson (drums) tracked and mixed the album at One Stone Recording Studio, and mastered it at West West Side Music.“Wretched Host”, the 2nd full length, was initially self-released by the band this last June with small amount of copies made available directly from the band. Few months later the release caught attention of Polish label Selfmadegod which lead to signing official deal and proper worldwide release.The follow-up to 2010’s „Chains Of Hypocrisy” is set for November 16th 2015 release on CD/digital. “Singularity” is the first song from the upcoming album available for listening and can be streamed at Selfmadegod Records’ SoundCloud or YouTube channel.Formed in New Brunswick, NJ in 2007, Dystrophy spawned from a DIY ethic that has stuck with the band to this day. Progressing from the rapid technical approach of their first album, “Chains Of Hypocrisy”, Dystrophy have since refined their style on their next release, “Wretched Host”; an intensely personal tale of mental health woven into a dissonant style of technical death metal.DYSTROPHY plays progressive and technical death metal that will appeal to fans of DEATH, GORGUTS, ATHEIST, VOIVOD, RIPPING CORPSE, HUMANS REMAINS, DEATHSPELL OMEGA and the likes.
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The construction of the ideal world is complete
Arrogance cloaked in progress
The epoch of complacency begins
Drink deep the poison of enlightenment
The collective will has been realized
Hopeful, we orbit the rotting sun
Yet on the cusp of immortality
Humanity falls to every sickness

Numbed and blind to the covert genocide
We are the bloodless shells of man

The creations best their masters

With machine-like precision, they feed
We are the bloodless shells of man

The creations best their masters

A return to the state of nature
Reduced to a feral monstrosity

The apex has been reached at last
We climbed Jacob's Ladder
and wide-eyed, tasted the infinite
We now fall from the peak of the edifice
And feast upon its foundation

Eyes shut away from true salvation
The heaven we seek is a lie

Track Name: Singularity

Anatomical limitations defied
The shells of humanity
are no longer needed for life
A new vessel is forged

Exploit the rapid growth
and influx of technology

Exocortexes created to hasten the process
Cognitive breadth increased beyond comprehension
and freed from all constraints

More machine than man
Innate humanity now denied
Mortals protracting death
time's but a myth
Written in tomes of the past
and spoken in hushed rasps

Days pass before death is realized
A harrowing fortnight of corporeal decay
Every second forces panic

Silence pervades

Track Name: Wretched Host

Isolation breeds disdain
A War of attrition
Turned within

The eyes of the world
Watch eternally
Asphyxiate and bleed
Tear at the true self

To labor for every breath
Is a sin of omission

Pushed to a cavernous existence
Empathy for mankind forever extinguished
All that remains is the cult of the self
The bonds of empathy have been severed

To labor for every breath
Is a sin of omission

Celebrations of misfortune
Are the prime joys felt by us now
Piercing others with detached stares
but learning nothing at all

Kneel before the new cathedral
High priests beckon with forked tongues
Choke down the wretched host
Concede that your humanity's lost

Remain consumed by the basest trifles
Deaf ears prevail as blood is shed
Ignorance abound where the bodies lie

Integration breeds despair
A revelation drawn before all

The heads hang in shame
For each day dead and gone
Awakened to the disrepair
But no recourse remains

Track Name: Demise

Behold the majesty of tragedy
A gruesome sight from time forgotten
I place my rage upon its mantle
From blackened seeds its roots will grow

I long to drain the life from your gaze
How I despise your ways
You starve me from all that is righteous
Yet to your will I remain enslaved

There is nothing left but a distant memory
There is nothing left to blame
I see the world with eyes stained by pride
I bow my head in shame

I have slain the visions from my true dreams
My will shall not be done

Every step that's taken
Is a step towards certain madness
Trapped in deliberation
I punish the world around me
The growth from aspiration
Is destroyed by abject blackness
No time left to heal the rifts
I let the cancer grow

This is the demise
I scorch the earth without reprieve
I've become a tyrant
I now live to spread misery

The demise of the pure at heart
Is clear for all to see
I drain you now of all your worth

Track Name: Anhedonia

Witness the propagation
of false consciousness

Lied to from the start
Kept from the origin
of the affliction
Deceit underlies every act of man
I am cursed with an anhedonic fate
Attacked at the core in the embryonic state

Emotions dulled to absurdity
A searing malaise casts its shadow again
Brainwashed to crave the suffocating roots
and rip the threads that connect the world

Cognizant of the specter of death
In which dread and despair become one
The will to achieve full realization
Is cast out at every turn

Witness the spawning of a wrath with no dawn
Shatter the borders and tear at the seams
I cling to life with every act of rage
Rebel against the foundational screeds
No longer enigmatic and ever present

Empathy exists no more

Track Name: Nadir

We are the hate that hate created
Eviscerated by a novel disease

The chosen few amass in darkness
Shrouded for moments from the impending plague

Discordant howls pierce the void
as they feast on the remains of their young
With no messiah to light the way to salvation
An alien frost snuffs out the landscape

Survival depends on the death of the other
An iron will prevails among the ruthless ones
Persistence secured by the flash of the blade
Existence is brutish and short once again

Reduced to a feral barbaric state
The nadir has been reached at last

With the remnants of enlightenment destroyed
History will be preserved but dishonored
Utter disdain for slovenly ideals
Useless screeds are cast into the pit

The fires burn on in the face of extinction
Charred human remains feeding the wretched flames
The wrath of nature reveals its rightful course
As it corrects the untenable visions of man

Lifeless eyes lost in bereavement
Sacred tongues reduced to chants of rage
Memories dim as the violence ascends
Heartless, the victors of a terminal war